Securing Data Communication in Wireless Body Area Networks using Digital Signatures.

M. Anwar; A. H. Abdullah; R. A. Butt; M. W. Ashraf; K. N. Qureshi; F. Ullah

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Securing Data Communication in Wireless Body Area Networks using Digital Signatures.

Author(s)

M. Anwar Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

A. H. Abdullah Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

R. A. Butt Telecommunication Engineering Department, NED UET, Karachi, Pakistan

M. W. Ashraf Computer Engineering Department, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

K. N. Qureshi Computer Science Department, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

F. Ullah Computer Science Department and IT, Sarhad University of Science and IT, Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is an evolving technology for healthcare applications. It provides the opportunity to medical service providers to remotely monitor the health status of their patients on real time basis. In WBANs, sensor nodes collects data of vital signs and send to the medical server for further analysis. Since this data contains life-critical sensitive information so the security, privacy and safety of this data is a main challenge. In this paper, we highlight the major issues and challenges related to data security and privacy in WBANs. Further we propose a data hybrid method named D-Sign for encrypting and decrypting using digital signatures. We also analyze the performance of the proposed method against the stateof-the-art mechanisms aimed to ensure the security and privacy in WBANs.

Publication Details

Page(s) 50-55

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Published Journal: Technical Journal, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Year: 2018

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Keywords

Security and Privacy, -Wireless Body Area Networks